Vanished: Jeff Bush was sucked into a 100-ft-wide sinkhole that opened under his bedroom

The deadly sinkhole that stole Florida man Jeff Bush's life without warning last week was finally revealed today beneath the ruined family home.

Crews had worked since Sunday to clear the house so they could better see the depth of the problem and determine how many other homes could be in danger.

Authorites have yet to say how far the depths could extended.

The revelation came only hours after brother Jeremy Bush choked back tears as he watched the property demolished.

Speaking to assembled media he said more should have been done to recover the body of his brother who was tragically killed by an expanding sinkhole under the property just days before.

'I feel like they could have tried harder to get my brother out of there,' he said. 'That was my brother. No one is even talking about what my mom and dad are going through. They don't want to be on camera. My mom and dad are going through hell right now.'

As he spoke, a crane began to tear down the structure, hooking into a wall and the house back towards the street.

Crews were razing the home, where Jeff Bush was killed, as officials have deemed it too dangerous to continue searching
for his body.

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Revealed: Demolition finally showed the large sinkhole that swallowed Florida man Jeff Bush from his bedroom last week

Hidden: It took more than a day for crews to clear away the house safely so that experts could see the sinkhole and determine how dangerous it might still be

Jeremy had tried to save his brother when he heard him screaming, but was unable to reach him.

A deputy pulled Jeremy out of the sinkhole, and likely saved his life.

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'No one ever wants to bury their kid
before they go,' he said. 'I love my mom and dad with all my heart and I
just want my mom and dad to know that I love you and I tried to save
your son. I tried my hardest.'

Deadly: The Bush family had no way to know this pit was growing beneath their home

Don't get close: At least one nearby home has reportedly been evacuated until it can be determined how much danger they may be in

Uncharted: Some of the world's biggest sinkholes have been measured at thousands of feet long

Jeremy hopes the crews can pull out what little of the home remains.

'I want some kind of memories of him,' he said. 'I want his hats. I want his clothes. I want anything that was in his room.'

Crews were trying to recover what they can but as the property is razed, but its a delicate balancing act.

Break down: Jeremy Bush, right, told reporters that not enough was done to get his brother Jeff out of a sinkhole during an emotional interview as the family house was demolished

He tried: Jeremy had attempted to save his brother, but he himself had to be pulled out of the sinkhole by a deputy

If they touched the walls of Jeff's room, it could collapse into the sinkhole taking with it the belongings he desperately wants to see.

So far only a few items have been recovered.

Among the things Hillsborough County firefighters have been able to recover is a Bible that Wanda Carter, who's father owns the property, has kept clutched tightly.

'[This] means that God's still in control, and he knew we needed this
for closure,' she said. 'We have each other, and that's all
that matters.'

As Jeremy mourned, a heavy machine with a large bucket scoop was moved into position on
what was believed to be solid ground, at a close enough distance that
workers can still reach onto the property and pull the house apart,
Jessica Damico, a spokeswoman for Hillsborough County Fire Rescue told
reporters.

Dangerous: Jeremy wants his brother's belongings back to remember him, but officials say that attempting to move the room towards stable ground could collapse it into the sinkhole

Alone: A heartbroken Jeremy told his parents on Sunday that he 'tried his hardest' to save their son

The effort to find Bush's body was called off Saturday while crews tried to learn how far the underground cavity reaches and whether more homes are at risk.

The 20-foot-wide opening of the sinkhole was almost covered by the
house, and rescuers said there were no signs of life since the hole
opened Thursday night.

Jeremy was escorted with
a woman by a deputy to the front of the house early Sunday before
equipment moved into position.

He repositioned some flowers from a
makeshift memorial to a safer location, where Bush and the unidentified
women knelt in prayer.

People gathered on lawn chairs, bundled up with blankets against
unusually chilly weather.

Several dozen milled about within view,
including officials and reporters.

Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill said officials had
talked to Bush family Sunday.

Crews would try their best to move the
structure forward, toward the street, so the family can get some
belongings, Merrill said.

'We don't know, in fact, whether it will collapse or whether it will hold up,' he said.

Crash: Demolition experts watched as the home was destroyed Sunday morning

Demolition: With equipment on what they believe is solid ground, crews tore down Bush's house

Mystery: As the site was cleared, crews hoped to discover how deep the cavity goes and if any other houses were still at risk

He said crews' goal for Sunday was to knock down the house, and on
Monday clear the debris as much as possible to allow officials
and engineers to see the sinkhole in the open.

'At this point it's really not possible to recover the body,' said Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill, later adding 'we're dealing with a very unusual sinkhole.'

Bush, 37, was in his bedroom Thursday night in Seffner - a suburb of 8,000 people 15 miles east of downtown Tampa - when the earth opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five others in the house escaped unharmed.

Before the collapse: Jeremy Bush remembered his brother with a makeshift memorial Sunday before demolition began

Missed: Jeremy Bush prays in front of the house, where his brother Jeffrey was swallowed by a sinkhole, before its demolition

Tearful: Jeremy Bush wipes his face after praying in front of the house as crews get ready to raze the structure

On Saturday, the normally quiet neighborhood of concrete block homes painted in Florida pastels was jammed with cars as engineers, reporters, and curious onlookers came to the scene.

At the home next door to the Bushes, a family cried and organized boxes. Testing determined that their house also was compromised by the sinkhole, according to Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokesman Ronnie Rivera.

The family, which had evacuated Friday, was allowed to go inside for about a half-hour to gathering belongings.

Investigation: Once the house was knocked down, crews began to clear the debris as much as possible on Monday to allow officials and engineers to see the sinkhole in the open

Sisters Soliris and Elbairis Gonzalez, who live on the same street as Bushes, said rumors were circulating among neighbors, with people concerned for their safety.

Experts say thousands of sinkholes erupt yearly in Florida because of the state's unique geography, though most are small and deaths rarely occur.

All day: The demolition took the better part of a day and a hafl

"There's hardly a place in Florida that's immune to sinkholes," said Sandy Nettles, who owns a geology consulting company in the Tampa area. "There's no way of ever predicting where a sinkhole is going to occur."

Most sinkholes are small, like one found Saturday morning in Largo, 35 miles away from Seffner. The Largo sinkhole, at about 10 feet long and several feet wide, is in a mall parking lot. Such discoveries are common throughout the year in Florida.

Gone: Brother Jeremy Bush reacts after placing flowers and a stuffed animal at a makeshift memorial in front of a home where a sinkhole opened up underneath a bedroom late Thursday evening and swallowed sibling Jeffrey in Seffner, Florida

Condemned: The home where Mr Bush disappeared into the sinkhole had to be demolished Sunday to see the extent of the problem

Horror: Authorities said there was nothing else they could do to recover Bush's body because of the sinkhole's unique nature

The state is prone because it sits on
limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves in water, with a layer
of clay on top. The clay is thicker in some locations - including the
area where Bush became a victim - making them even more prone to
sinkholes.

Jonathan Arthur, the state geologist
and director of the Florida Geological Survey, said other states sit
atop limestone in a similar way, but Florida has additional factors -
extreme weather, development, aquifer pumping and construction - that
can cause sinkholes. "The conditions under which a sinkhole will form
can be very rapid, or they can form slowly over time," he said.

But it remains unclear what, if anything, caused the Seffner sinkhole.

"The condition that caused that sinkhole could have started a million years ago," Nettles said.

Engineers had been testing in the
area of the Bush house since 7 a.m. Saturday. By 10 a.m., officials
moved media crews farther away so experts could test a home across the
street.

Experts spent the previous day on the
property, taking soil samples and running tests - while acknowledging
that the entire lot where Bush lay entombed was dangerous.

Jeremy Bush said someone came to his home a
couple of months ago to check for sinkholes and other issues, apparently
for insurance purposes, but found nothing wrong. State law requires
home insurers to provide coverage against sinkholes.

"And a couple of months later, my brother dies. In a sinkhole," Bush said Friday.

The sinkhole, estimated at 20 feet
across and 20 feet deep, caused the home's concrete floor to cave in
around 11 p.m. Thursday as everyone in the Tampa-area house was turning
in for the night. It gave way with a loud crash that sounded like a car
hitting the house.

Heartbreak: Jeremy Bush, whose brother Jeff was sucked into a sinkhole, broke down outside the home hours after his brother disappeared

Grief: Jeremy had rushed to his brother's room when he heard his screams but it was too late

The day before demolition began, Bill
Bracken, an engineer with Hillsborough County Urban Search and Rescue
team told ABC News the house 'should have collapsed by now, so it's
amazing that it hasn't.'

Before calling off the search crews cautiously swept with ground penetrating sonar equipment at the site to map the subsurface.

Jeremy
Bush, 36, recalled how he desperately tried to pull his brother, Jeff, from the rubble
as he heard his screams for help.

'I ran in there and heard somebody screaming, my brother screaming, and I ran in there,' he told My Fox Tampa Bay .

'And
all I see is this big hole. All I see is the top of his bed. I didn't
see anything else, so I jumped in the hole and tried getting him out.

"The
floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I
didn't care. I wanted to save my brother. I could hear him screaming for
me, hollering for
me. I couldn't do nothing.'

The dresser and the TV set also vanished down the hole, he said.

'All
I could see was the cable wire running from the TV going down into the
hole. I saw a corner of the bed and a corner of the box spring and the
frame of the bed,' he said.

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue
officials arrived at the home at 11 p.m. on Thursday and the first
officer on the scene rescued Jeremy Bush from the edge of the chasm.

Lt. Donald Morris from Hillbosourgh County Sheriff's Department described the scene officers found.

'The mattress, the bed, everything
was actually going down in the hole where the first person had gone and
now the second person is in the hole trying to save the first,' he said.

'And they're not being successful so
[the rescuer is] just reacting and doing what they have to do to get
that person out. It was deep enough that the person he pulled out to
safety was not able to fully extend their arms and even reach the top.'

Condemned: The home and other properties nearby have been evacuated in fear the hole could grow

Probe: Engineers work in front of a home as they try to determine the size of the sinkhole

Janell Wheeler told the Tampa Bay Times she was inside the house when the sinkhole opened.

'It sounded like a car hit my house,'
she said, adding that there were screams as one of her nephews rushed
to rescue his brother from the debris.

The rest of the family went to a hotel but she stayed behind with her dog and slept in her car.

Anthony
Randazzo, an expert in sinkholes, said he knows of only two people, who
both lived in Florida, who have died because of a sinkhole in 40 years
of his studies.

'Usually,
you have some time,' Randazzo told USA Today. 'These catastrophic
sinkholes give you some warning over the course of hours. This is very
unusual and very tragic.'

Bizarre: An aerial view of the home shows no sign of the sinkhole which claimed the man's life

DANGER UNDERGROUND: WHY DO SINKHOLES OCCUR?

Watch out: Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania are the states most affected by sinkholes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey

A sinkhole is a hole that opens up suddenly in the ground. They mostly occur because of erosion or underground water that gathers naturally or due to man-made activities.

When this water dissolves the foundation beneath the surface layer, spaces and caverns develop underground. Limestone, carbonate rock,
and salt beds are particular vulnerable to this erosion.

Meanwhile, the top layer of Earth usually stays intact. When the dissolving area beneath the surface becomes too large, the surface suddenly gives way.

According
to the U.S. Geological Survey, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania are the states most affected by
sinkholes.

While they often
occur from natural causes, sinkholes can be man-made and caused by
human activity. Groundwater pumping and construction are the most likely
culprits. They can also occur when water drainage systems are changed.